Southern Cross Seafood Farm
Located on Cedar Key, Florida, Southern Cross Sea Farms stands as a shining star for lovers of great seafood. Their alter is piled high with some of the best tasting clams raised and harvested in the Gulf of Mexico. A vertically integrated clam business, Southern Cross is one of the largest clam growers in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cedar Key Clam Farming
Fishing is a great way to enjoy the outdoors, a challenge of man versus nature. However, sports fisherman led an important turning point in history, a battle between the fisherman out for leisure and the commercial fisherman, supplying food for market and providing a living for his family. In one day, through the action of voters within the state of Florida, at the urging of sport fisherman, an entire industry was wiped out. And, from that struggle, a new industry was born. For decades in our country commercial fishing was a well respected industry, even receiving recognition as an important food producer for our country.
Things had changed by November 8, 1994, when Florida voters approved Amendment 3, a proposed amendment to Florida’s state constitution. Also known as the net ban, Amendment 3 called for the banning of all entangling nets and all other nets larger than five-hundred square feet within 3 miles of Florida’s Gulf Coast and one mile of Florida’s Atlantic Coast. This amendment put commercial net fisherman out of business, eliminating their way of life for generations Amendment three of the constitution was proposed and funded in the beginning by Karl Wichstrom. He was the founder and editor-in-chief for Florida Sportsman Magazine. He proposed this Amendment because of his belief that the Marine Fisheries Commission and the Florida state legislature hadn’t done enough to regulate and control commercial fishing. Florida Sportsman Magazine supported this amendment claiming dolphins and sea turtles were being killed by entangling themselves in gill nets. I had the privlage to sit down with former net fisherman Hal Hodges of Cedar Key, Florida, this is what he had to say about these claims: In the end, the Florida sportsman magazine, sports fisherman, and environmentalists won the battle. Florida voters approved the net ban.
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Farming the Sea - Full Episode
An ever-growing demand for fresh seafood has pushed wild fish stocks around the world to the brink. In Florida, scientists and other experts are farming the sea in an attempt to alleviate some of these fishing pressures. “Aquaculture,” or “fish farming,” is the cultivation of marine or freshwater organisms. Some aquaculture methods have been highly criticized for their negative environmental impacts, but other, more environmentally friendly techniques, are being perfected at various research institutions in Florida.
Changing Seas travels from coast to coast, meeting with experts who raise fish for food production and to replenish depleted wild populations. Learn how scientists are making it possible to grow marine fish miles away from shore, and discover which Florida research facilities are testing new methods for making aquaculture more environmentally sustainable and efficient. Also visit Cedar Key, Florida, where aquaculture has helped to preserve the area’s rich fishing heritage. Here, former gillnet fishermen turned clam-farmers harvest their product with little impact to the local ecosystems.
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CLAM FARMING BOOM
Fishing communities in the US are disappearing at an alarming rate. Stricter regulations, depleting fish stocks and coastal erosion have all taken a toll and in many places an entire way of life has disappeared. But one town in Florida has embraced new aqua farming techniques and is now flourishing.
Clam Farming After A Hurricane
Cedar Key, Florida clam farmer Mike Hodges, explains in this short video, the effects Hurricane Hermine, (Sept.2, 2016) had on his way of life, due to the overwhelming amount of requests! This video was uploaded to the Small Clam Farmers of Cedar Key Facebook Page and received over 21,000 views. It is now uploaded to Mike Hodges and his wife Anna White Hodges NEW youtube channel called A Clamorous Life. which they have created to share their videos with family and friends. If you are new, please feel free to subscribe for updates here:
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Clam farming: A forgotten industry
A view of the South Carolina seafood industry, as seen through the eyes of Kirk Gollwitzer, Natural Light Productions. This film is another film in the ongoing series of films starting from Can You Still Taste The Ocean? The over all purpose of this film is to raise the awareness of the domestic seafood industry in the wake of foreign imports, high fuel prices, and a lack of positive government interest.
Save The Small Clam Farmers
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Florida fishermen (watermen) have dealt with many financial hardships over the years here in Florida. With a jubilant tenacity, the watermen have always displayed the great American pioneer spirit and regrouped to find ways to stay and work on the water. When the gill nets were banned in 1994, something needed to be done for the displaced net fishermen, and in 1995 Project WAVE was formed to help re-educate them about growing farmed-raised clams as an alternative.
The state of Florida leased to the newly retrained fishermen 2 acres each of submerged water bottom in designated and surveyed areas in the Gulf of Mexico, Cedar Key being one of those areas. The 2 acre leasing requirements would give each new clam farmer an equal opportunity on the playing field for success. Save The Small Clam Farmers
However, in the last couple of years the Division of Aquaculture has changed their attitude towards the Clam Farming Industry. It's not exactly a level playing field any longer. There are certain members of our industry that are clearly in violation of their Lease Contract Agreements by cultivating clams in large numbers well off their leases. It is common knowledge and acknowledged by the Division of Aquaculture, yet they refuse to do anything about it. In fact, their plan is to reward the violators by giving them the submerged lands that they are already illegally planting clams on. This gives the violators unfair advantage over law abiding industry members. We want the Division of Aquaculture to manage our submerged lands in a manner that is fair and consistent for ALL clam farmers and without any underlying favoritism shown to a select few.
Obviously, some clam wholesalers are making less per-clam profit, but are still able to be successful because they are selling in volume, unlike the small clam farmers that are being slowly starved out of business. This can be equated with what giant retail wholesalers have done to the small business person in every town in America... they starve them out! NOW, there is a proposed Clam Lease Expansion, largely supported by some wholesalers in Cedar Key. If the wholesaler is allowed to purchase more leases than he/she already controls, he/she will continue to produce more clams on the bottom and drive the market prices further down to the point of extinction for the small Cedar Key clam farmer.
Common Sense Dictates The Question?... Why Should We Be Expanding More Clam Leases, When Currently There Is A Glut (over-production) Of Clams On Our Existing Leases?
The submerged bottom land that is leased by the small clam farmer is owned by the citizens of Florida and managed by the Department of Agriculture... not the giant retail wholesalers of the world. Save The Small Clam Farmers
Points to remember:
- There are fewer small clam farmers today because of unfair business practices and natural attrition--some have discontinued their businesses for various other reasons.
- Fair clam industry practices and healthy competition maintains work for everyone involved.
- When the per-unit clam price is lowered because of to much supply, it hurts everyone involved.
- Cedar Key clam farmers and their families want to keep their farms and succeed too!
- It's time for state officials to take a stand and uphold and enforce the regulations equally for small clam farmers, including wholesalers that are also clam farmers and are contractually bound with the same lease agreement..
Save The Small Clam Farmers
This Petition is to STOP the Proposed Clam Lease Expansion!
...It's Just Common Sense!
Save The Small Clam Farmers
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OYSTER RECOVERY: A Farm in the Water Brings More Oysters to the Chesapeake
Maryland's oyster industry continues to battle back from overfishing and disease. Part of the recovery is being credited to a special oyster recovery partnership which has planted more than five billion oysters in the Chesapeake Bay, rebuilt some 16-hundred acres of sanctuary and oyster reefs and recycled more than 45-thousand bushels of shells. One of the partners in the recovery effort is an Eastern Shore oyster farm, which recently joined in a celebration of the progress that's been made in bringing back one of the jewels of the Bay.
(Joyce Koh / CNS-TV)
Farming the Sea - Trailer
Changing Seas travels from coast to coast, meeting with experts who raise fish for food production and to replenish depleted wild populations. Learn how scientists are making it possible to grow marine fish miles away from shore, and discover which Florida research facilities are testing new methods for making aquaculture more environmentally sustainable and efficient. Also visit Cedar Key, Florida, where aquaculture has helped to preserve the area's rich fishing heritage. Here, former gillnet fishermen turned clam-farmers harvest their product with little impact to the local ecosystems.
Meet Your Neighbor...Cherrystone Aqua Farms
Cherrystone Aqua Farms loves shellfish! For over 115 years they have been producing the best farm raised clams and oysters in the world. Today, the fifth generation of the Ballard family is still producing great shellfish and their reputation for quality, consistency, and service is unsurpassed. Harris Teeter is proud to provide Cherrystone Aqua Farms products to our shoppers and proud to call Cherrystone one of our local neighbors!
Voters: MIKE HODGES
[A long-time Cedar Key clam farmer and grandson of a former Florida state senator tells his story of how he would vote in the 2018 November midterm election.]
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Large rattlesnake startles Florida birdwatchers
A Bartow couple on a birdwatching trip came across something that really ruffled their feathers: A 6-foot, 100-pound diamondback rattlesnake.
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Releasing pet piranha pacu into pond from which i originally caught them from.
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Viral Plumber Who Dove Into Sewer to Fix Pipe Gets Free Jeans For a Year
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A photo of a hard-working plumber who went above and beyond the call of duty to fix a broken pipe is going viral. A homeowner snapped this shot of Jimmie Cox diving into murky water to try and fix the problem. Inside Edition connected Cox with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, who commended the plumber for his dedication to his dirty job. A photo of a hard-working plumber who went above and beyond the call of duty to fix a broken pipe is going viral. A homeowner snapped this shot of Jimmie Cox diving into murky water to try and fix the problem. Inside Edition connected Cox with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, who commended the plumber for his dedication to his dirty job. Cox was photographed with only his legs still dry and wearing Wrangler jeans, so the company is also giving him a year's supply of pants
700 Pound Snake Pulled out of Lake in North Carolina
Giant 700 pound snake caught in lake in Proctor, North Carolina. The giant man eating python was measured at 98 feet long. Police were contacted to see if there have been any recently filed missing person reports as a snake this big could have surely eaten a human.
This giant snake is massive and just gorgeous, but it didn't take long to find out that the STORY behind it... was fake, just another hoax.
While the image is indeed real, I think the size of the giant snake could have been exaggerated due to the camera angle
Nevertheless, this snake is still huge, but where did it come from? The markings on it's skin looks similar to that of a reticulated python native to Southeast Asia. After playing around with a little Google translate, the mystery was finally solved.
This giant python came from Indonesia and after some rough translating, it turns out that it was discovered this last Thanksgiving near the village of Belinyu City. It was found by accident by a group of construction workers who severely injured the reptile while knocking down a large dead tree in which the python was sleeping inside of. The workers put the dying snake out of it's misery and buried it.
It's sad to see such an incredible animal killed, especially one that could have been a new world record size. I wish there were more pictures so we could get a better idea of just how large it was.
I really enjoyed learning about this amazing snake, if you guys have any cool wildlife stories or interesting animals that you think I might enjoy, tell me about it on Facebook
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How to Plant Palm Trees | Ask This Old House
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook heads to Miami to plant several varieties of palm trees in a front yard. (See below for shopping list, tools, and steps.)
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Shopping List for Planting Palm Trees:
- Palm tree
- Marking spray paint, used to mark the planting hole on the ground
- Bark mulch
Tools List for Planting Palm Trees:
- Tape measure
- Pointed shovel or backhoe, used to dig the planting hole
Steps for Planting Palm Trees:
1. Arrange the potted palm in the yard, then check for proper spacing and placement. If planting more than one, arrange all trees now. Don't set any trees directly beneath overhead wires.
2. Before digging, ask the utility company to check for buried cables or pipes.
3. Use marking spray paint to spray an outline onto the ground around the potted tree. Make the circular outline 12 inches larger than the pot diameter.
4. Dig the planting hole with a pointed shovel or backhoe.
5. Lay a rake handle across the hole and measure the depth of the hole. It should be slightly shallower than the height of the tree's root ball.
6. Tip the tree onto its side and pull off the plastic pot.
7. Carefully roll the tree into the hole, then stand it upright.
8. Backfill around the root ball with the soil excavated from the hole.
9. Water the tree immediately after backfilling.
10. Next, spread 2 to 3 inches of bark mulch around the base of the tree.
11. Water the tree every day for one week, every other day for the second week, and twice a week throughout the summer.
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